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The Madness of David Marchand

If you didn’t know where you were going it would be pretty hard to find the place that Jamaican artist David Marshand calls home. The entrance runs just off the main road leading out of St Ann’s Bay and is easy to miss unless you know that the entrance you are looking for resembles an [...]

Return to the Trembling Heart: Grand Rue, Port-au-Prince

Three months after the earthquake that devastated our neighbouring island of Haiti, 22-year-old Haitian writer/filmmaker Claudel ‘Zaka’ Chery takes FIRST on a short tour around Grand Rue, a main street running through the heart of the commercial district in Port au Prince.
Zaka is part of a collective of Haitian artists who have been chosen to [...]

Into the Trembling Heart: Five hours in Port-au-Prince

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – walking around in the rubble on Grand Rue, one gets the distinct feeling that people are putting on a brave face. Three months after the earthquake that took the lives of more than 200,000 people, life continues despite the indescribable destruction as its residents continue the painstaking process of rebuilding the [...]

Girl Friday: Candice McCalla X Lime Cay

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